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Every book Peter Boettke recommended on podcasts
Peter Boettke’s most recommended books
- How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
- Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
- A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
- Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns
- The Economists' Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum
- The theory of money and credit by Ludwig von Mises
- Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
Peter Boettke is an economist who frequently discusses economic history and theory on podcasts. During a recent podcast appearance, Boettke recommended Thomas Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions, praising a paragraph at the end of the book regarding top-down versus bottom-up perspectives, and Matt Ridley's How Innovation Works, highlighting the phrase that innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity. He also discussed Ludwig von Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit to explain how markets function, Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions to examine differing views of social organization, and Jennifer Burns's biography of Milton Friedman to capture the intellectual climate of post-war economics. Additionally, he referenced Russ Roberts's Wild Problems to connect wicked learning models, while critiquing Binyamin Appelbaum's The Economists' Hour for its framing of key historical figures.
Books recommended by Peter Boettke
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How Innovation Works
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley is a non-fiction exploration that examines how major historical inventions, technological breakthroughs, and standard of living improvements develop over long stretches of time.
Recommended“I'm sure you know Matt Ridley one of my favorite books since the last time we talked is how Innovation Works ... Ridley has this fantastic phrase he says Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity”
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Knowledge And Decisions
Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell is a foundational economic and sociological study that examines how different societies utilize information and organize decision-making processes.
Recommended“at the very end of his book knowledge and decisions which I think is doesn't get talked enough about it has he has one of the best uh paragraphs I've ever read”
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A Conflict of Visions
A Conflict of Visions is a work of political philosophy by Thomas Sowell that examines the underlying assumptions about human nature that shape competing political and social ideologies.
Discussed“so first in the meta issue this is his book on the the conflict of visions basically right you know the the one is the idea that you see things bottom up”
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns is a comprehensive biography exploring the life, ideas, and intellectual legacy of the influential conservative economist.
Discussed“this is really quite well captured in Jennifer Burns's book on Milton fredman”
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The Economists' Hour
Binyamin Appelbaum's economic history investigates the rise of market-oriented economic dominance and the influence of economists on public policy.
Critiqued“I know you've had Apple bomb on your show about the economist hour ... that I think he always got it I think he got it wrong”
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The theory of money and credit
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises is an early foundational work exploring monetary economics and credit systems.
Discussed“he draws on um uh some nuggets of comments that mises has in his first book theory of money and credit”
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Wild Problems
Wild Problems is a guide by Russ Roberts that explores difficult life decisions which cannot be resolved through standard cost-benefit analysis.
Discussed“and you have a wonderful book called you know uh wild problems which is actually the it's it's you know it's easy to have not easy but it's it's um the world that the people that were building the mod model of perfect competition”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke) | EconTalk | 2025-02-17 | 7 |